According to a thank-tank report produced by Policy Exchange, the UK government could save as much as £24billion a year by 2020 if they used technology more efficiently.

The report recognised the recent progress in the use of IT to transform government services and process, such as the replacement of more than 300 departmental and agency websites plus the launch of G-Cloud. It also recommended that 150 highest-volume government transactions to be converted to the digital-by-default standard by the end of 2015, plus for the creation of an information marketplace. It went on to recommend several other activities the government should undertake and to encourage politicians and policymakers to put technology at the forefront of their thinking for the 2015 general election.

The manifesto set out three principal goals: to build the world’s most connected and digitally skilled society; to make Britain the most attractive place outside of Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurs to start and grow a business; and to make government the smartest in the world.

G-Cloud procurement spend now over £175m